The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
Many Lives Lost, and Many Per,
SONS Fatally or Seriously
Injured.
The Cause of the Accident In
v0lved i'm Deep MyS-
terry.
Horrible Details of the Terri
BILE and Sickening Dis
aster.

Boston. March, 14.-[Speciall. A heav-
lily loaded passenger train on the Boston
and Providence railroad met with a terri
BILE accident about seven o'clock this morn
ing between RoslinGale and Forestville.
Four cars are said to have gone through 8
bridge and many persons are killed A
wrecking train left for the scene of the ac-
cident.
The latest adyices from the scene of the
accident indicate that thirty three per-
sons were killed and forty injured, among
them are many women. CONDUCTOR TIL
den was among the killei.
THE ACCIDENT
occurred on the Bedham branch OF the
Boston d Providence railroad between
Forestyille and Roslindale, at what is
known as the Bussey park bridge. The
O'Clock train TO Dedham, consisting of
seven cars ard baggage car, under charge
of Conductor Tildea broke through the
bridge. The engine and three cars went
over safely, but five others fell through
the bridge 10 the road b=neath, distance
Ct thirty feet. The last car, which was
the smoker, turned Completely over and
struck on top of the Others, all being
The cause OF the accident is said TO have
been the breaking of the bridge.
Reports a. To the number OF persons
yet 10 give the total number of killed and
injured. 1t is stated that
THE BRIDGE
where the accident occurred Is compara-
lively new one and that the accident
L.. l. -
giving way, causing the car TO strike
against the abutment Of the bridge. The
smoking car, after it fell, caught fire, bat
The fire department was promptly OH
hand and prevented the spread of the
flames. The bodies of the dead haze all
been removed, and of the wounded some ut
are the hospital and some have been taken
home, so that it is very difficnIu to obtain
the manner and extent OF the injuries at
the present time.
Advices from the scene ef the wreck on
the Boston and Providence railroad, state
that
NINETEEN BODIES
have already been taken from the
ruins. many of the injured
were brought to the hospital IN this
city. Some of the killed have not been
identified, The train was crowded with
working people, and the NEST intense ex-
element prevailed among friends who
were anxious to learn the names of those
killed and injured No reliable details of
the number of dead is as yet received. The
police say thirty-three were killed outright,
and nearly as many will die. Webster
Clapp died in Forest Hill station, where
he had been taken. The officers of the
road are present, and are doing all they
can. Many doctors are there
and are doing everything in their power.
Superintendent johnson does not know
how many are killed or injured.
The bodies of the killed are horribly
mangled, some of the heads being severed
entirely from the bodies. Many of the
bodies are crushed beyond recognition.
The latest computation shows a total of
twenty-three killed and fifty injured.
THE WRECK,
as 1t lies, makes q more appalling ruin
than that of any recent disaster. At White
River Junction and other scenes of horror,
fire wiped ont all the ruins that were not
lndestructible, but not so this time. There
lies the great trough nearly flied with
torn, twisted. crushed and splintered railroad
mass is simply impossible. OF
the nine cars which formed the train, six
are in The cut. The first, No. $40, lies
minus its trucks near the track about 400
teet from the nearest bridge abutment. Ii
is said il was the truck of this car that
went wrong first, but the occupants
were not hurt, being only shaken up. Just
back of this car is No Is, the second
car of the train. This car was swept from
Its trucks and its rear was crushed in BY
the Car following car No. %. The third
one of the train is on the embankment
BADLY DEMoRALIZED,
but retains its general shape. The pas
sengers in This car were badly shaken up
but there were no serious casualties
among them. This car lies partly on its
side about one hundred feet from the |
chasm. Next came car No. 81; il is |
doubtful il any one escaped from this car
alive, the bridge entirely gave way be-
fore it reached the inwardside but the |
of the train and |
the strength of the couplings |
carried it nearly over, the chasm strik-
ing the abutment on the other, side the |
force of the shock shot the roof forward so
that it cleared The chasm and slid along
the rails its full length. The body of the |
ear was Literally
GROUND To PIECES,
and the bits of wood, iron and hum an |
bodies Were strewn on the road beneath, |
forming the foundation of the wreck. those |
who examined the wreck could find no |
distinct trace in the ruins of this car which |
could be identified, the only proof that it |
had existed was the fact there were plainly |
nine car roofs at different points aud it !
of course that nine cars had been |
though it was possible to trace
bnt eight. The cars which lie in the |
chssm form pile Of wreckage 400 feet
long by 100 feet wide The road beneath |
crosses at such sharp angle that all the |
cars were diverted on striking the opposite !
abutment into general position parallel /
with the street and the other abutments-